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| schestowitz | <http://practical-tech.com/?p=4497> | Sep 22 00:25 |
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| schestowitz | Now I agree with you on SJVN... :-) | Sep 22 00:25 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: The Linux desktop is dead. Long live the Linux desktop. .::. Size~: 38.22 KB | Sep 22 00:25 |
| TechrightsSocial | Now I agree with you on SJVN... :-) | Sep 22 00:25 |
| schestowitz | he's trolling for hits | Sep 22 00:25 |
| schestowitz | sutor actually made a detailed post for a change http://www.sutor.com/c/2011/09/mobile-native-vs-hybrid-vs-html5-1/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BobSutor+%28Bob+Sutor%29 | Sep 22 00:53 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Mobile app development: Native vs. hybrid vs. HTML5 (part 1) | Blog | Bob Sutor .::. Size~: 51.13 KB | Sep 22 00:53 |
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| schestowitz | ____/ Homer on Thursday 22 Sep 2011 03:28 : \____ | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > Verily I say unto thee that Snit spake thusly: | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | >> So what does that say about GNU / Stallman? Do you really think | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | >> GNU/Linux folks are more likely to support child porn and pedophilia | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | >> than are other groups? | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > You missed it. In fact I don't think anyone who read those comments had | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > the faintest idea where Stallman was coming from, or perhaps they just | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > feigned ignorance as an excuse to attack him. | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > Stallman is an academic nerd who considers issues empirically and with | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > complete dispassion. Or to spell it out: the female human body is | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > biologically capable of reproduction at the age of ~12, and indeed both | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > marriage and procreation at that age was historically very common, given | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > that the average life expectancy in those days was much lower than | Sep 22 09:52 |
| schestowitz | > today. Stallman was simply challenging the proposition that sexual | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > activity between those old enough to procreate should be defined as | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > "abuse" per se, based purely on some arbitrary number. He wasn't | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > expressing a sexual preference, he was simply answering an academic | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > question, with the same dispassion a veterinary surgeon would consider | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > the appropriate age to neuter a cat. | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > Personally, I'm sexually indifferent to the human form until it has | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > reached sufficient definition that it is unambiguously an adult female, | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > indeed one which exudes sexuality, and I have little interest in | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > pursuing a romantic relationship with anyone who can't communicate with | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > me at my own level of maturity and intelligence. But I really don't | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > know how I'm supposed to pick a number from that, given that every human | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > is a unique individual who matures at his or her own rate. If I had to | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > guess, I'd say anyone less than half my age would be far too young for | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > me, emotionally, but that's still well within the legal limit. The | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > question becomes far more contentious when one is at or near the legal | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > age of consent, when someone just one day younger than oneself might | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > technically be a "minor". Is that "abuse"? No, but the law says it's | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > "paedophilia". | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > Unfortunately society is filled with abusive people, or at least those | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > who lack good judgement, and therefore we need laws to stop or punish | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > that abuse. It's for that reason the law settled on an arbitrary number | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > to define the legal age of consent, or in fact several arbitrary | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > numbers, in several jurisdictions. In practice this means that perfectly | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > legal sexual relations in one jurisdiction are illegal in another, and | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > that sexually mature people might be guilty of breaking the law based on | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > some number that has no relevance to their situation. But that is the | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > only effective means we have to deal with predators who abuse children. | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > Consider this: at some point lawmakers had to sit down and discuss the | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > very issues that Stallman addressed. What if they'd settled on the | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > number 14 instead of 16? Would they have been "paedophiles" too? By that | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > definition, the entire States of Arkansas, Indiana, and Iowa must also | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > be full of "paedophiles". Indeed the residents of Arizona, California, | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > Idaho, North Dakota, Oregon, Tennessee, Virginia and Wisconsin must | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > consider the remaining parts of the US to be "paedophile states": | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm | Sep 22 09:53 |
| schestowitz | > | Sep 22 09:54 |
| TechrightsSocial | Title: Worldwide Ages of Consent .::. Size~: 158.16 KB | Sep 22 09:54 |
| schestowitz | > But like most people who keep labouring Stallman's comments, you're not | Sep 22 09:54 |
| schestowitz | > really interested in academically debating the subject matter, you're | Sep 22 09:54 |
| schestowitz | > only interested in capitalising on any opportunity to attack someone who | Sep 22 09:54 |
| schestowitz | > doesn't share your extremist politics in other, unrelated issues. | Sep 22 09:54 |
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| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/84224714 | Sep 22 18:12 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Schestowitz (schestowitz)'s status on Thursday, 22-Sep-11 16:59:41 UTC - Identi.ca: #CloudLinux Now Running on More Than 5,000 Servers http://is.gd/cv5Fwp commendable milestone, anyone can #RHEL his/her own way | Sep 22 18:12 |
| TechrightsSocial | -> Title: CloudLinux Now Running on More Than 5,000 Servers .::. Size~: 22.41 KB | Sep 22 18:12 |
| schestowitz | https://identi.ca/notice/84224137 | Sep 22 18:13 |
| TechrightsSocial | @Schestowitz (schestowitz)'s status on Thursday, 22-Sep-11 16:11:24 UTC - Identi.ca: It is unfair to extrapolate constructive criticism of Android to an "attack" on the whole of "Open Source"->just inciting against messengers | Sep 22 18:13 |
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| sebsebseb | hi | Sep 22 21:01 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR | Sep 22 21:02 |
| MinceR | sebsebseb | Sep 22 21:02 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: so anyway you know what a MinceR is right? | Sep 22 21:24 |
| sebsebseb | it's used in food I belive? | Sep 22 21:24 |
| sebsebseb | to mash/stir things round? | Sep 22 21:24 |
| MinceR | yes | Sep 22 21:24 |
| MinceR | to turn meat into tiny bits | Sep 22 21:25 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: so also in a way to destroy things | Sep 22 21:25 |
| sebsebseb | exactly yeah | Sep 22 21:25 |
| sebsebseb | and so when I put MSincer earlier in #techrights | Sep 22 21:25 |
| sebsebseb | well | Sep 22 21:25 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: that could have meant that | Sep 22 21:25 |
| sebsebseb | your a Microsoft destroyer | Sep 22 21:26 |
| sebsebseb | or Mark Shuttleworth destroyer | Sep 22 21:26 |
| sebsebseb | or I think there's a diesae even that is MS for short | Sep 22 21:26 |
| sebsebseb | not sure quite | Sep 22 21:26 |
| MinceR | ic | Sep 22 21:27 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: so yeah that was the joke really | Sep 22 21:28 |
| sebsebseb | :D | Sep 22 21:28 |
| sebsebseb | ,but of course one you coudn't just pick up on | Sep 22 21:28 |
| MinceR | yeah, i didn't get it entirely | Sep 22 21:28 |
| sebsebseb | MinceR: hmm my Dad will probably be around when I do Techbytes tommorow, but he'll probably leave me alone so :D | Sep 22 21:29 |
| qu1j0t3 | sebsebseb: Multiple Sclerosis | Sep 22 21:50 |
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| schestowitz | :-) | Sep 22 23:57 |
| schestowitz | qu1j0t3: btw, I need to show the site tomorrow to the client | Sep 22 23:57 |
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| schestowitz | if you've not had a chance to do the logo yet, I'll make one now | Sep 22 23:57 |
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